ex-president it all but ensures that special counsel jack smith will hear from the key witness who none of the other investigations into the trump cou plot not the fulton county d.a. has ever heard from under oath we re, of course, talking about mike pence a ruling handed down wednesday night by a federal appeals court rejects an emergency request by trump to block mike pence s testimony. new york times reports this, quote, the 11th hour ruling by the u.s. court of appeals for the district of colombia paves the way for mr. pence to appear before the federal grand jury as early as this week the ex-president has a few legal options left including an appeal to the supreme court but as nbc news reports, quote, in previous instances, where appeals sent senior aides must testify, his legal team has opted no the to fight the decision further and those witnesses have quickly appeared before the grand jury and trump s argument that executive privilege prevents pence or any of his ai
hi there, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york. before the january 6th select committee ever got off the ground, before it existed, and well before the first signs ever emerged that the justice department was investigating the trump part of the trump coup plot, before even donald trump s second impeachment trial wrapped up. one local prosecutor in georgia decided she would take on donald trump and the unprecedented assault on our democracy in the wake of the 2020 election and she launched a criminal probe into the conduct of the ex-president and his allies in her state. today, about two years and one week to the day that that investigation was launched, we finally got our first real glimpse into her work. the work of fulton county district attorney fannie willis. portions of her report compiled by a special grand jury were released this morning. the report gives us a sense of the depth of her investigation. 75 witnesses, a mountain of documents and data. along with testimony from
to overturn the election making a major move tonight. will pence cooperate? plus new reporting into upfront this hour. biden has a new obsession. the president zeroing in on a certain republican in florida. our phil mattingly reporting tonight. senator john fetterman still hospitalized tonight, after feeling light headed. it comes after he suffered a massive stroke last year. fellow stroke survivor and country music superstar randy travis is out front tonight to talk about his road to recovery. let s go up front. good evening, welcome to all, this is a special addition of out front tonight, i am erin burnett. you tonight, the special counsel with a major move. former vice president mike pence has been suspended. the special counsel jack smith calling it as part of his criminal investigation into trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. of course, pence was there that they and all the days before and after and on that day, the mob threatened to hang him, remember that? h
witnesses from a criminal grand jury. and hurricane fiona takes aim at canada while another storm takes forms and could be headed for the united states. welcome to the lead, i m pamela brown in for jake tapper on this day. we stop with a secret court battle be waged by donald trump s lawyers. sources are saying the attorneys for the former president are fighting to keep witnesses from testifying before a federal grand jury about trump s te tee attempts to overturn the election. our reporters, evan and caitlin, broke this story today. tell us more about this legal fight. what exactly are trump s lawyers arguing here? because it s secret right now, we don t know exactly what they re going to be arguing, but it is a fight that is before a judge in the federal court in d.c. it is because there are grand jury proceedings where they re trying to get information close to trump, things that happened in the white house, say, on january 6th or before them, maybe things that att
martin luther king jr. s friend, john lewis, gets tonight s last word. up next, new reporting white house chief of staff john kelly warned epa director skon pruitt the scandals had to end. that s on the 11th hour with brian williams and that starts now. tonight, the president may feel relief, but he s not off the hook in the russia investigation. as new questions emerge about him being a subject. and legal advice for donald trump is offered up this evening on fox news. plus what happens when robert mueller delivers his report? we ll ask a powerful member of the senate judiciary committee. and reality check. donald trump on day 440. learning that enacting policy as president is a lot harder than delivering an applause line on the stump. the 11th hour on a wednesday night begins now.
although he is a subject? there was no collusion between the president and russia, so nothing has changed. we know what we did and what we didn t do. so none of this comes as much of a s